It's not like a regular like you do on facebook or other social media platforms.
At bitcointalk.org, high merit score means that you have high posts quality, it means that you comments are really worth for some people because you got honored for them.
At bitcointalk.org, high merit score means that you have high posts quality, it means that you comments are really worth for some people because you got honored for them.
On those platforms (FB etc) likes are also showing meaningfulness of the post or the page. So it's the same in the start. Difference only in amount. Here if you earned 100 merits you are godlike
and on FB you need 10k+ to be like trend maker, isn't it?)Lol. There's a reason why it's called "merit" and not "like"
and what meaningfulness are talking about? you mean friends liking each other's post regardless of the content or baseless opinions/pictures of good looking people especially with a little nudity garnering huge amount of likes? It's going to do a simple thing, high rank is going to have a direct connection with the quality post, you won't find Hero members posting comments with non-sense as it's common to see now.
why not?) what will prevent any member from posting useless post except they don't want to lose their time) the only thing could be done with it now is to make their trust negative, but it's obviously too much. I think paying merit for posting could do something, but it needs much more merits to circulate in system (may be we are moving somewhere there in long term?
)If that's the case, the lower rank members can't post since they do not have any merits and consequently can't gain one since they can't post.
If this merit system doesn't reduce the amount of spam and account farming here, theymos might impose a more stricter rules/system but to fully test it we need to give it some time.